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The results are in! Man, the YouTube voter base is strong. . . The Town Hall Cat won out overall thanks to the sheer number of YouTube votes! In any case, Round 2 begins now! We'll start with our first bracket of the new round today at 3:00 PM EST! Get ready to vote!

If you'd like to see how Round 1 went (before I started using the right word for each bracket XD), check out the Round 1 masterpost here!

Round 1 Masterpost

And here are the current brackets of Round 2!

~~Bracket 1: Bonnie VS Panda (OVER)~~
~~Bracket 2: Pirate VS Moose (OVER)~~
~~Bracket 3: Aww, a Spider! VS That Person (OVER)~~
~~Bracket 4: Mikkel (Legwarmer) VS 6/11 Pig (OVER)~~
~~Bracket 5: Town Hall Cat VS Bistro Raccoon (OVER)~~
Bracket 6: Bingus VS Cool Stop Sign (In Progress)

This post will be updated as Round 2 progresses and more brackets are released!

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Aaaaand that marks the end of Round 2! The votes will be tallied over the weekend, and voting will begin again on Monday! After Round 3, the FINAL SHOWDOWN will commence, so make sure to vote for your favorite characters!

Pinned Post bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls who will the final two be? that's up to YOU to decide! after round 3 of course :)

The Fashion Edition of the Bonnie Ask Compilations is here! Wow, Bonnie looks so fancy with all of these different outfits!

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Bracket 6: Who's the better character?

Bingus :)

Cool Stop Sign

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And the last bracket of Round 2 ends tomorrow! Vote now if you haven’t!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

It looks like Bonnie's making some chocolate for the townsfolk! How sweet!

She's going around town and delivering them by hand!

Where should she deliver to first?

By the Church

By the Library

By the Bistro

By the Other Bakery

See Results

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Sorry everyone, it looks like Bonnie's stopping by the other bakery first :( YouTube sure is powerful 👀

But hey, maybe the votes will line up this time!

Where should Bonnie go next?

By the Church

By the Library

By the Bistro

See Results

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YouTube and Twitter have decided that Bonnie’s stopping by the Church 😭 But maybe, just maybe, for this last poll, we can do it!

One last poll…

Where should Bonnie go next?

By the Library

By the Bistro

See Results

bonnie's bakery bonnie's still making her way through town! one last time! maybe this time the library will win 🥹

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Round 5: Who's the better character?

Town Hall Cat

Bistro Raccoon

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Oops! Forgot to give the reminder yesterday that there’s no polls going on this week! But a few of the polls are still ongoing! Like this one!

It ends tomorrow, so be sure to vote for your favorite character!

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls oh boy the finals are coming up!

The Bear Ask Compilation is now live! What’s that?! Bear?! That’s right! He also had a hand in answering some questions when we were running the Q&A! Check it out here!

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery youtube ask bear :O and bonnie! Youtube

Bracket 6: Who’s the better character?

Bingus :)

Cool Stop Sign

See Results

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls the meme-iest bracket so far XD

Round 5: Who’s the better character?

Town Hall Cat

Bistro Raccoon

See Results

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls a raccoon is kind of like a cat! i think?

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Happy Valentine's Day!

It looks like Bonnie's making some chocolate for the townsfolk! How sweet!

She's going around town and delivering them by hand!

Where should she deliver to first?

By the Church

By the Library

By the Bistro

By the Other Bakery

See Results

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Sorry everyone, it looks like Bonnie’s stopping by the other bakery first :( YouTube sure is powerful 👀

But hey, maybe the votes will line up this time!

Where should Bonnie go next?

By the Church

By the Library

By the Bistro

See Results

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls bonnie's still making her way through town! what will she find by the end of it?

Bracket 4: Who’s the better character?

Mikkel (Legwarmer)

6/11 Pig

See Results

bonnie's bakery bonnies bakery bonnie's bakery fresh ingredients bonnie's bakery dlc bonnie bakery tumblr polls fishdev thought that Dave was going to win for sure but Mikkel is more popular than he looks! will that popularity carry him to victory again? only you can decide!

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A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally.

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt’s response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:

The reality of predstrogen’s suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.
Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.
Last year, the “mature” and “sexual themes” community labels were erroneously applied to some users’ posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr.
Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.
When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.

Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:

Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.
Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.
Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic: